| Flight details: | After everyone had been struggling to get any real height I caught a lovely little 3m/s climb which whisked me through everyone and had topped out at 2700' before I was more than a few metres away from launch. (Why did nobody join me, you all just flew past?)
I thought it would be rude not to try to go somewhere from this height so off I toddled. Predictably, I glided almost all of the way to the ground without finding another climb. Then just as I was about to not cross the extensive woodland to the NE of Laughton, I spotted a bunch of gulls working a climb. I flew over to them, but the drift on their weak climb was such that if I had lost it I would have ended up spending the rest of the day picking the nice new demo Aircross Ufly (EN B - a new pilot would fly this thing!) out of the trees. Common sense ruled and I popped it into a handy field. (As opposed to a muddy one or one full of horses)
I walked some way back, failing to hitch a ride, until I noticed that there were no longer any gliders visible, then called Ghandi who kindly came and retrieved me.
A bit of a pointless flight really, but had I found just one more thermal it would have been a more useful distance, maybe even as far as the next train station :0) |
